“Michael Winner’s most accomplished film. It is never out of control…a tough, exciting, cloak-and-dagger adventure…the plot exudes a fortuitous whiff of Watergate with something more than mere panache.” – Margaret Hinxman, Sunday Telegraph
“A labyrinthine network of international double agents and double crosses…Unlike most action-and-violence movies, Scorpio is best when the characters are merely talking.”
– Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“Diverting Cold War-era espionage thriller…cat-and-mouse intrigue…smart and tense.” – Peter Hanson, Every ’70s Movie
Three legendary actors – Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, and Alain Delon – star in director Michael Winner’s Scorpio (1973), an action-packed tale of espionage, friendship, and betrayal. Lancaster is a CIA agent marked for death by his own boss, with the added wrinkles that the assassin on his trail is a young former protégé (Delon) and the one man who offers him help is his Soviet opposite number (Scofield). Featuring a superb score by Jerry Fielding, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.
LANGUAGE: English
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.85:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
SUBTITLES: English SDH
1973 / Color
114 MINUTES
RATED PG
Special Features: Isolated Score Track / Audio Commentary with Film Historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman / Original Theatrical Trailer
Limited Editions of 3,000 Units